Adventures in error (Registro nro. 119163)
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| LC control number | 36028545 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | AZ |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1879-1962 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Adventures in error |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-04-14 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The standardization of error -- The pleasures of buncombe -- Are explorers to join the dodo? -- Travelers' tales -- Standardized wolves -- Beyond the frontier -- Olof Krarer -- History of the bathtub in America. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Alan, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Adventures in Error" by Vilhjalmur Stefansson is a collection of satirical essays written in the mid-20th century. Using irony, thought experiments, and anecdotes (many drawn from polar lore), it probes how societies construct and cherish “useful” fictions, and how definitions often trump facts in public belief. The likely focus is a witty critique of truth-seeking, education, journalism, and exploration, arguing for the social utility of selective, benevolent deception.<br/><br/>The opening of the work dismantles the urge to “standardize” knowledge, proposing instead knowledge-by-definition—truths made secure because we agree on them—illustrated by the ostrich that “buries its head,” literary wolves, and fixed images of Arctic cold. It then contrasts this with the messy, perishable nature of facts, pivoting to a broader case for socially sanctioned untruths: parents’ baby talk and fairy tales, the West’s defense of imagination versus rumored Soviet truth-telling for children, and a vivid account of the American Santa Claus pageantry used to delight (and mislead) youngsters. Turning to schools, it shows history tailored for patriotism, physiology simplified to uphold cleanliness creeds, and geography streamlined by clinging to Greek climate zones while ignoring Arctic heat waves—before defending films like Nanook as a “grown-up’s Santa” that consolingly exaggerates polar hardship. The section concludes that truth is often impractical or harmful outside mathematics and certain sciences, endorsing tactful deception for social harmony and even suggesting a coalition of institutions to uphold it. A brief segue raises the question of whether exploration can endure once the map is “finished,” setting up the next essay’s theme. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1936 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Arctic regions |
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| Uncontrolled term | Truth |
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| Uncontrolled term | Common fallacies |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89094310885">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89094310885</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78443">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78443</a> |
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